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Wouter De Coster

@wdecoster.bsky.social

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Dad. Scientist at VIB. Bioinformatics postdoc. Sequencing technologies enthusiastic. Geneticist. He/him.

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Ported the aSTRonaut tool for visualizing tandem repeat sequence composition to Rust using the amazing kuva library from @psy-fer.bsky.social. Blog post at wdecoster.github.io/gigabaseorgi..., documentation at github.com/wdecoster/aS.... Feedback appreciated!

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Is this you?

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I am fetching reads from cram files in Rust, using rust-htslib and a rayon thread pool. It surprises me that memory use is flat up to 5 threads, but then takes off linearly. Does anyone have a clue what is going on? @robp.bsky.social @johanneskoester.bsky.social Code: github.com/wdecoster/in...

graph showing memory use of parsing a CRAM file using rust-htslib

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Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I have made a new release of kyber, a tool to make a quick sketch of your long-read sequencing data or to compare multiple datasets. It uses a fixed grid of accuracy and read length. Now also supports ubam - feedback appreciated! github.com/wdecoster/ky...

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